Side Resistance of Drilled Shafts in the Denver and Pierre Formations
Results of load tests on drilled shaft foundations in Upper Cretaceous shales are described and evaluated. Three load tests were conducted on shafts in the Denver Formation, in Denver,...
Behavior of Instrumented Model Piers in Manufactured Rock with a Soft Layer
A laboratory test apparatus has been used to study the side resistance of piers socketed into manufactured soft-rock masses. The results of four tests are reported, three of which included...
HUD Concerns: Post-Tensioned Foundations in Texas
An investigation was conducted of post-tensioned slab foundation systems in Texas pursuant to a request from the Headquarters Office's of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development...
21st Century Composites Require ASCE Standards and SDS
This paper describes the ASCE initiative and discusses the philosophy and needs for the structural design system (SDS) of which the standards will be a part. Our perspective is from the...
Going International: Profit or Peril?
Six veterans of the international engineering and construction market discuss the financial risks of international work, including currency risk; expatriate living conditions; difficulties...
Airport Pavement Innovations?Theory to Practice
This proceedings,
Design and Performance of Deep Foundations
Piles and Piers in Soil and Soft Rock
This proceedings,
Report on Ship Channel Design
Strength Design for Reinforced-Concrete Hydraulic Structures
21st Century Timber Engineering
Timber engineering is moving into the 21st Century faced with challenges in technology, governmental mandates and environmental concerns. Engineers are continuously being challenged in...
Vietnam: Worth Looking Into
If it is to enter the world economy, let alone play catch-up with the booming economies of some of its neighbors, Vietnam requires massive numbers of infrastructure projects: roads, bridges,...
Keeping Cables Calm
Cable vibration and corrosion are potential problems relating to cable-stayed bridges. Nonetheless, owners think their structural elegance is worth it, and increasingly longer cable-stayed...
Reliability and Uncertainty Analyses in Hydraulic Design
Prepared by the Subcommittee on Uncertainty and Reliability Analyses in Design of Hydraulic Structures of the Technical Committee on Probabilistic Approaches to Hydraulics of ASCE. ...
Can Engineers Cut Curtain-Wall Failures?
For many reasons, including owners' false perception of economy engineers have abdicated responsibility for curtainwall design. Failures of curtainwall components are very...
Arches For A Parkway
The final phase of construction on the Natchez Trace Parkway (which follows a centuries-old 450 mi trail between Natchez, Miss. and Nashville, Tenn.) is nearing completion almost 60 years...
A Dome To Remember
Under intense pressure from all sides, a trio of engineering and architectural firms working in San Antonio, Tex., turned the political coal of a stadium everyone wanted to build (but...
Seismic Remediation for Earth Dams
Over the last 30 years or so, new analysis methods and case histories of dam performance in earthquakes have significantly changed our understanding of the severity of the earthquake hazard...
Imaging the Future
Design professionals of all stripes, including engineers, will find themselves working with a variety of visual images more and more in the near future. Image literacy, an understanding...
Calendar: Bridges 1994
Featured bridges are: Briggs Bridge (AK); Stone Arch Bridge (NY); Rio Grande Gorge Bridge (NM); Bridge Street Bridge (MI); Hennepin Avenue Bridge (MN); Egypt Pike Bridge (OH); William...
Quarry Techniques for Dimensional Breakwater Stone
On the Texas Gulf Coast, there has evolved a unique design for breakwater and jetty structures. The Galveston District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the designer of these structures,...
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